Western Maryland

A Maryland teen is part of a group facing federal charges for calling in hoax threats to an airport, a school, a casino and people’s homes across the country, according to a newly unsealed indictment.

Montgomery County is the beast that beats them among Maryland’s local governments. Its budget proposal is a whopping $7.1 billion, more than the combined spending plans for Anne Arundel, Howard and Frederick — plus seven of the state’s 16 smaller counties. Why should you care? What happens there affects the rest of us.

The National Weather Service predicts the best chance of seeing Monday's solar eclipse thorugh cloud coverage will be along or east of I-95.

Showers and thunderstorms soaked the Baltimore region Tuesday, increasing the potential for flooding and hail in some portions of the state.

Removal of the Robert E. Lee statue from the Antietam Battlefield is appropriate when the totality of his life is considered, a writer who examines Civil War History says.

Counties around the state grew in 2023. But why is Baltimore still lagging behind?

Frederick sheriff’s deputies and the U.S. Marshals Service have arrested Keon Wilson-Hawkins in the Jan. 10 killing of a Pikesville man.

Baltimore area residents and emergency responders are surveying the damage caused by substantial rainfall that soaked the region Tuesday.

Officers responded to a fatal shooting Saturday evening at a Giant grocery store in a shopping center on Sugarloaf Parkway.

A 2-year-old died in a house fire Friday evening in Washington County near Hagerstown, the Maryland State Fire Marshal said.

Since the 2021 reassessment, residential values increased on average by 25.6% and commercial properties saw an average jump of 17.6%, according to state data released Friday.

Simply put, if you’re willing to do a little extra legwork, there is money to be saved on Thanksgiving dinner.

It’s not clear how a gunman found Judge Andrew Wilkinson's Hagerstown home Friday night and shot him to death in his driveway. Maybe he followed him home, or maybe he stalked him on the Internet. But Maryland lawmakers knew this kind of violence was a threat.

Officials said Pedro Argote, 49, is suspected of gunning down Circuit Court Judge Andrew Wilkinson in his driveway on Thursday, hours after Wilkinson ruled against him in a divorce case.

Significant portions of Maryland are either under a drought watch or drought warning, the Maryland Department of the Environment said Wednesday.

Trone, a Democrat who represents much of Western Maryland in Congress and is running for the U.S. Senate, echoed concerns detailed by the American Civil Rights Union in a complaint last July.

Seeing spotted lanternflies in your garden, along the street and scudding thorough the air? Welp, they're about to get worse. But at least they seem to be sparing Maryland's wineries this year.

Family members on Tuesday remembered Robert Taylor Horne Jr. as a gentle giant, a hilarious brother and a community-minded individual who was always helping others.

A woman vanished without a trace in Florida, and for 17 years her family in Maryland wondered what happened to her. Police in Florida have determined that Jeana Burrus was killed and placed in a shallow grave.

The highest concentration of descendants is in Maryland, according to the study published this week in the journal “Science.”